Olga Nicolaievna of Russia

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This article is about the daughter of Nicholas I of Russia. For information on the daughter of Nicholas II of Russia, see Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia.

Olga (11 September, 1822 - 30 October, 1892) was born Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna of Russia. She was a daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.

She married Crown Prince (later King) Karl of Württemberg in 1846. They had no children. In later life, Olga and Karl adopted Olga's niece Vera Konstantinova, the daughter of her brother Grand Duke Konstantin.

Her name is, curiously, attached to a geological formation in the Northern Territory of Australia. In 1871, to mark their 25th wedding anniversary, they made the German-born Australian explorer Ferdinand Mueller a Freiherr, becoming Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. He repaid the compliment as follows. A series of massive rock formations was discovered by the explorer Ernest Giles in central Australia in 1872. Mueller was Giles' benefactor. Giles had wanted to name the tallest peak Mt Mueller, but Mueller prevailed on Giles to name it "Mt Olga", in honour of the queen. The entire geological formation then became known as "The Olgas", before the indigenous name Kata Tjuta was officially proclaimed in the 1980s. [link]

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